Ascetic Piety and Women's Faith

Essays on Late Ancient Christianity

• Author(s): Elizabeth Ann Clark,
• Publisher: E. Mellen Press
• Pages: 427
• ISBN_10: 0889465290
  ISBN_13: 9780889465299
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / General ,

Description:... This prize-winning text treats the subject of women in the context of the early Christian world, discussing ascetic renunciation and feminine advancement, female monasticism, and patristic exegesis of the story of Eve and Adam and the Song of Songs.